Credentials

Background

Spann runs his own private consulting firm, The Weather Company[3], which provides weather programming to numerous radio stations.

He is also the chairman of Reality Radio, which once operated on Birmingham FM as WRRS-FM “Reality 101” and is now the parent of AllWorship.com[4].

Stance on Climate Change

“Earth's climate has changed since the day God put it here. We have had these cyclical changes, and I believe that most of this is purely natural.” [3]

Key Quotes

“I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them.”

“The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.” [4]

Key Deeds

He is listed as one of a group of “scientists and medical doctors” we are signatories. [5]

Those who sign the declaration[6] must agree with the statement “We deny that carbon dioxide—essential to all plant growth—is a pollutant. Reducing greenhouse gases cannot achieve significant reductions in future global temperatures, and the costs of the policies would far exceed the benefits.”

January 18, 2007

Spann wrote an opinion piece on his weather blog, titled '”The Weather Channel' Mess[7]” where he responded to comments made by Dr Heidi Cullen on The Weather Channel's website. [6]

Cullen had written that “If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn’t give them a Seal of Approval.”

Responding to Cullen, Spann said “I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country… . I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype” (.doc[8]). [7]